Bill-file.



W. MOLENAAR.

BILL FILE.

APPLICATION FILED 11 111.11. 1912.

Patented Nov. 11,1913.

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Ina/Mn COLUMBIA PLANOORAFH C0" WASHINGTON. D- c.

W. MOLENAAR.

Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

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WITNESSES ATTORNEK COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH to. WASHINGTON, D. c.

W. MOLENAAR.

BILL FILE. 1

APPLICATION FILED MAB..8. 1912. 1,078,452. Patented Nov. 11,1913.

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' moms/Er invention may be Unrrn sTA'rns PATENT onnio WILLIAM MOLENAAR,OF PATERSON', NEW JERSEY.

BILL-FILE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat 1, WILLIAM MOLENAAR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Paterson, in the county of lassaicand State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bill-Files, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to systems for keeping accounts and the like andparticularly to that class of such systems in which bills, slips or thelike bearing accounts or other data are held in orderly arrangement insuitable classifying devices, for instance, as in my Patent No. 883,468.

The general objects of this my present stated as follows: the housing ofthe means for holding the account or other papers within a suitable casein such a way that they will be protected from the access of fire or ofunauthorized persons; the arranging of the said means within a case in away calculated to allow their ready removal :in groups-or sets and atthe same time secure simplicity and durability tion; the forming ofothebill holders constituting units of the aforesaid bill holding means soas to facilitate the filing of the papers in such a wayas to promoteaccuracy in the keeping of the accounts according to the preferredmethod (to be ex plained) and, finally to improve the apparatus involvedso as generally to promote accuracy, entries, afford immediatedisclosure of balances and keep the various accounts unexposed to theview ofall eXceptt-he persons having authorized access to them.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of theimproved apparatus, its cover appearing partly broken away. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the case, partly in section and open, the hinged memher ofthe cover being shown moved along on its hinge; Fig. 3 is asideelevation of the apparatus, its case being closed; Fig. 4 is asideelevation of the apparatus, the case being open and a part of thecase being broken away; Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in front elevationof one of the groups of bill holders; Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view infront elevation of one of the bill holders and a bill contained therein;Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view of one of the groups of bill holders, ofthe case and of the means for holding the several bill files in thethroughout, as shown double-walled structure thus produced being andcompactness of construeapparatus until the latter avoid waste of time inmaking- .exposed one; so that Specification or LettersPatent.PatentedNov, 11, 1913, Application filed March 8-, 1912. Serial No.682,345.

group in compact or nested relation; Figs.

8 and 9 are perspective views of the two members of a bill holder; andFig. 10 is a view showing in plan a part of the means for holding'agroup of bill holders in compact dispositio The body part a of theaforesaid case has a bottom, a back wall, two side walls and a frontwall. It is preferably constructed tliroughout of sheet metal and thestructure forming said walls is preferably hollow in Figs. 1 to 4, the

constructed to receive in the spaces of its bottom-wall, side-wall, andback-wall por tions a system of piping or tubing Z) having athreadednipple 0 whereby to attach it to a water system and also having outlets(Z of the kind used as automatic sprinklers in sprinkling systems areadapted to open to release the water in the system when the surroundingtemperature reaches a predetermined degree. One of these sprinkleroutlets is shown within the case, at the bottom of the floor and theother is shown projecting through the cover (to be described). In caseof fire in the apartment containing the apparatus, the exposed sprinklerwill usually serve to prevent damaging of the contents of the canbe-removed: the other sprinkler being inclosed, will not be affected bythe heat as soon as the it will not release the water in the systemexcept as a last resort.

It will be observed that the system of tubing is extended in the form ofcoils throughout substantially the whole of the wall-space of the case,protecting the contents from exterior heat and preserving the interioroutlet against release except, only,

the heat becomes so considerable that unless the contents were Wettedthey would be destroyed or damaged.

The cover of the apparatus comprises two parts, 6 and f. The part eis apiece of sheet metal having side flanges g which overlap the side wallsof the case a in the closed position of said part and its bottom edge isrebent, as at it, so as to hook into and form a hinge with the reverselyrebent edge 2' of the front wall of the case. Part e may thus be swungdownwardly on said hinge into the position shown in Figs. 2 and a, whereit will form a rest or support; if it is desired,

for buildings, that is, :outlets which are normally closed but whichthereof,

it may further be removed from the case by sliding it laterally (Fig. 2)until the parts of the hinge separate. A hook j is pivoted to eachflange g of the cover member 6, being extended through a guide h (Fig.2) in such manner that when the member a is swung outwardly the hooksengage said guides and support said member (Fig. i). The other covermember, 7, is likewise a piece of sheet metal having a continuousdownwardly depending flange Z, and when member 6 is closed member f fitslike a cap over the case and member 6 holding the latter closed. Memberf is apertured for the exposed sprinkler outlet (Z and also for a staplem on member 0, the staple being adapted to receive a lock 71..

On the floor or bottom of the case is secured a metallic strip 0extending from one side wall to the other thereof and formed withupstanding rebends 7), to the back wall of the case is secured a similarstrip 1 formed with forwardly extending rebends s, coinciding withrebends 2).

Turning, now, to the groups of bill holders, t is a channeled support,a, a series of pins or pivots connecting the sides thereof, 71 and toback and front bill holder members, and :0 pairs of spiral springscoiledon the pins or pivots and serving not only to press each front billholder member against the back bill holder member but, by engag ing innotches y of the front bill holder members, to hold each of the lattersecured against lateral displacement relatively to the correspondingfront bill holder member. Except as hereinafter indicated, the construction and arrangement of the parts 6, a, '0, w, a; and y are or maybe the same as in my Patent No. 1,005,451. Each group, so constructechofbill holder members is ada ited to be set in the case with the lower endof its support 6 resting against the front wall of the case between twoof the projections p, and with the upper end of the support restingagainst the strip 7' between two of the projections s, the projections pand s holding each group against sidewise movement.

To the back wall of the case behind each group of bill-holder members issecured a bracket 2 into which is tapped a screw 2 having a swiveledhead 3 to which is connected a spring l in turn connected with a Ushapedyoke 5 (Fig. 10) whose extremities are threaded and extended through thefront bill holder member of the group of bill holders, the threaded endsof such yoke having adjusting nuts 6 bearing against the said billholder member. Thus, means is provided whereby all of the bill holdermembers in each group are normally held nested or in the compactdisposition shown in Figs. 3 and t; as occasion requires adjustment maybe effected by manipulating either the nuts 6 or (having removed theadjoining group of bill holder members) the swiveled head 3. l V

()f course, in order to have access to the bills contained between anytwo bill holder members the front member is drawn back on its pivot fromthe rear member, so that all the forward members are, as it were,

parted from the rear members, the spring l maintaining a tension on theforward members which will return them when released. in order that thegroup of members may not be unshipped from the case when this partingoccurs, each group is held in place as follows: Pivoted at 7 to the backwall of the case back of each group of bill holder members is a springclip 8 whose lower end in the normal or vertical position of the clipoverlaps and bears against the upper end of the support t and whoseupper end projects slightly above the rearmost bill holder member. Inthis position the upper endmay be used, if desired, to clamp bills orother memoranda between itself and the back wall of the case (forinstance, orders which certain time). Upon swinging the clip 8 on itspivot toward the horizontal position, the group of bill holder membersheld thereby will be released and may be removed.

Returning, now, to the construction of the bill holder members, the rearbill holder member has slits cut into its lower edge and the part of themetal between the slits bent up forward to form rests 9 forbills 10; thefront bill holder member has openings 11 to receive these rests, whichare preferably long enough to still be received in the openings when themembers stand separated. Further, the front bill holder member hasrearwardly projecting side flanges 12 which stand relatively betweenupper and lower forwardly projecting side flanges 13 and 14 on the rearmember when the bill holder is closed. As in my patent last referred to,the rear member has a spur and the front member a corresponding opening16. The purpose of the construction involving the parts 9 and 11 and 12,just described is to gage each bill entered into the bill holder withprecision. For instance,it being predicated that the sum total ofamounts of purchases of bills already entered is always placed by theuser on the last or foremost bill, in a definite place thereon at handside thereof, if the newly entered bill should stand shifted a little tothe left to expose the last figure in the sum total on the precedingbill this figure might be read accidentally as a figure in the sum to beforwarded when another bill is to be entered. By extending the rests 9far enough forward so that they enter the openings 11 in the openposition of the bill holder, the bill will rest squarely thereon; and(What is of are to be filled at a the right e s s greater value) sinceit is more convenient and natural to lay the bill on the back of theforward bill holder member, between such as 12 on that member, when theforward bill holder member is released it will carry the bill back intoabsolutely true relation to those already filed.

Following a rectangular outline 17 the metal of each bill holder member,forward and rear, is pressed forward to form a label holder, a slitbeing formed atlS to admit the label and spurs 19 out out of thepressedup part of the metal to hold the label fiat. The back and frontbill holder members are preferably both provided with labels, since ifonly the front member has a label the user is likely to enter a bill inthe wrong place without perceiving the error-a mistake which is checkedat once when the rear bill holders are also labeled.

To the inside of the cover member 6' may be secured spring clips orstraps 20 for holding in place a paper sheet may be kept an indexofnames of customers and other data should the proprietor prefer that thelabels beinscribed with numbers to designate customers instead oft-heirnames, corresponding numbers being placed opposite the names in theindex, as shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. lhecombination of an inclined support '6, a series of upstanding billholder members attached thereto, a case receiving said support andhaving a back, the upper end of said support resting against said backand said case limiting forward movement of the support, and a clippivoted to said back on an axis substantially perpendicular thereto andnormally standing up right and having its lower end releasably holdingthe upper end of said support to said back and its other end projectingupwardly above said series of bill-holder members and serving as a meansto turn the clip on its pivot out of engagement with the sup port,substantially as described.

2. The combination of a series of upstanding bill-holder membersarranged face to face and pivoted on parallel axes in their lowerportions, means for supporting said series of bill-holder members, saidmeans limiting backward pivotal movement therefive cents each, byaddressing the Gopies of this patent may be obtainedfor 21 on which.

venting sidewise movement 0 of, a substantially U -shaped yoke havingits extremities projecting forwardly and respectively attached to theside portions of the foremost bill-holder at a point above its pivot,and elastic means, connecting said yoke with a part of the supportingmeans back of said billholder members, normally exerting a pull on saidyoke toward said part of the supporting means, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination of a case closed at the bottom, back and sides andopen forwardly and a cover member pivoted on a horizontal axis at thefront side of and to the case, the case and cover member havinginterlocking hinge portions and the cover member being slidablelongitudinally of its aXis of movement on the hinge member of the caseinto separated relation to the latter, substantially as described.

l. The combination, with a suitable support, substantially flat forwardand rear bill holder members pivoted therein face to face "and eachformed of sheet material, a spur projecting forwardly from the rear billholder member to pierce and thereby hold against movement'in their ownplanes the bills to be filed, the forward bill holder member havingrearwardly projecting lateral gages pref a bill placed between them, andelastic means normally holding the front bill holder member pressedbackagainst the rear bill holder member, substantially as described.

f 5. The combination, with a suitable support, substantially fiatforward and rear bill holder members pivoted therein face to face andeach formed of sheet material, horizontal gaging means for the loweredge of the bill to be filed projecting from one of said members towardthe other, the forward bill holder member having rearwardly projectinglateral gages preventing sidewise WILLIAM MOLENAAR.

Witnesses:

WM. D. BELL,

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

